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Asquith grave has him as "Prime Minister of England"

Maybe they ran out of space ...
Sutton Courtenay
Oxfordshire, England

He was elected to Parliament as a Liberal in 1886; he became Home Secretary in the last Gladstone's government. In 1908 he succeededSir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as Prime Minister and his government introduced social reforms including old-age pensions and unemployment insurance. During the first world war he was forced to resign. He resigned the leadership of the Liberal party in 1926.

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